Go Time: Golang, Software Engineering Getting Better, Mentoring, Drawing Gophers
Ashley McNamara joined the show to talk about sharing developer experiences, seeking help from the community, getting people excited about STEM, and other interesting Go projects and news.
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Featuring:
- Ashley Willis – GitHub, X
- Erik St. Martin – GitHub, X
- Carlisia Thompson – GitHub, LinkedIn, X
- Brian Ketelsen – GitHub, X
Show Notes:
Introduction to Programming - Curated list of resources for budding developers
Verizon #weneedmore | Anthem :30
Interesting Go Projects and News
Ruby-like language written in Go
Træfik, a modern reverse proxy < Gophercon sponsors too!
Introducing the Developer Experience Working Group
Caddy launch date 4/20 + cute stickers for order
Free Software Friday!
Each week on the show we give a shout out to an open source project or community (or maintainer) that’s made an impact in our day to day developer lives.
Erik - Grafana + InfluxDB + Telegraf + Mosquitto
Carlisia - ✨ All Contributors ✨
Brian - Gobot, Ron Evans for the win…and also Erik
Ashley - Hugo 0.20 Released: Custom Output Formats!
Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!